Dengue Outbreak during Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen.

ABSTRACT: We identified dengue in ≈51% of patients given a clinical diagnosis of suspected dengue in Taiz, Yemen, during 2016. The cosmopolitan genotype of dengue virus type 2 was most common; viruses appeared to have originated in Saudi Arabia. Damage to public health infrastructure during the ongoing civil war might enable dengue to become endemic to Yemen.

SUBMITTER: Alghazali KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6590741 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature